God used your teaching on this video for me to cancel the only other social media I have. I had already been seeking wisdom regarding it and you just made it clear for me to decide. Thank you Prof.
Dr Masson, around 36:40 you state that Wordsworth's emphasis on the mind above personhood eventually 'gives rise to mass murder'. But surely the historical facts of mass murders and other atrocities committed by deepy religious societies before the advent of Romanticism disproves your claim here.
Which mass murders by deeply religious societies? Pagans like the Aztecs? The Baal worshipers of the ancient world? I am talking about the rationally organized actions of modern scientific atheist states, for which there is ample evidence and no historical precedent.
@@LitProf As to your question, yes, those, but also plenty of Islamic and Christian societies throughout time have engaged in widespread killing and other atrocities. In your video on Critical Race Theory you acknowledge that the chattel slavery was practiced by western countries was atrocious, and these countires did of course consider themselves to be Christian. Deaths of slaves on the Middle Passage alone are estimated to be around two million. If you want an earlier example, peasants in sixteenth century Germany were put to death for their role in the uprising known as the Peasant's War, where at least three hundred thousand peasants were slain, mostly by the Swabian League, who were staunch Catholics. I don't know how much of a back and forth you're willing to have in a Youthbe comment section. I don't want to look as if I'm trolling or spamming. I enjoy your videos; you are an excellent lecturer.
God used your teaching on this video for me to cancel the only other social media I have. I had already been seeking wisdom regarding it and you just made it clear for me to decide.
Thank you Prof.
That was a good decision.
The more I listen to your lectures, the more I see, that we are all locked in a prison of those romantic ideas.
Dr Masson, around 36:40 you state that Wordsworth's emphasis on the mind above personhood eventually 'gives rise to mass murder'. But surely the historical facts of mass murders and other atrocities committed by deepy religious societies before the advent of Romanticism disproves your claim here.
Which mass murders by deeply religious societies? Pagans like the Aztecs? The Baal worshipers of the ancient world?
I am talking about the rationally organized actions of modern scientific atheist states, for which there is ample evidence and no historical precedent.
@@LitProf As to your question, yes, those, but also plenty of Islamic and Christian societies throughout time have engaged in widespread killing and other atrocities. In your video on Critical Race Theory you acknowledge that the chattel slavery was practiced by western countries was atrocious, and these countires did of course consider themselves to be Christian. Deaths of slaves on the Middle Passage alone are estimated to be around two million. If you want an earlier example, peasants in sixteenth century Germany were put to death for their role in the uprising known as the Peasant's War, where at least three hundred thousand peasants were slain, mostly by the Swabian League, who were staunch Catholics.
I don't know how much of a back and forth you're willing to have in a Youthbe comment section. I don't want to look as if I'm trolling or spamming. I enjoy your videos; you are an excellent lecturer.
"Ideas have consequences."
In this case, inverting the very idea of ideas has consequences